Announcement - Life Between Moments: New York Stories
My second book, LIFE BETWEEN MOMENTS: New York Stories, is publishing this August.
My second book, LIFE BETWEEN MOMENTS: New York Stories, is publishing this August. I couldn’t be more eager to bring it into the world.
To keep things short and sweet today, below is a brief preview and description of my book.
I hope it is enticing enough for you to pick up a copy on Amazon when it comes out, or add it to your Goodreads reading list.
I’m publishing my 2nd book at 25 years old
When I released my first one at 23, it became an Amazon #1 bestseller.
But looking back on it two years later, I can see the mistakes I made, and I’ve done my best to remedy them this time around.
Life Between Moments: New York Stories is a collection of short fiction, written during my time living in Manhattan over the past year. It comes out this August.
This differs from my first book, Everywhere But Home, because, while that one painted short vignettes of Southeast Asia, this book is entirely of my invention. Life Between Moments is fiction, as opposed to a memoir.
The details may have been accrued from real places and happenings, but the people and events are invention.
And as a reporter, these stories gave me plenty of challenge. On one hand, reporting is simple — you find the facts, and recount them.
Not that it is always easy, but it is straightforward enough.
Fiction, meanwhile, is always a blank slate, a tabula rasa. Just you and your imagination. Without your own inventions, your paper remains dry.
My approach for writing fiction is to observe to the best of my ability the day to day life of interesting people.
I try to ask good questions to my friends and colleagues. I keep my eyes open when I'm out and about.
There’s a story unfolding at all times, in all locations, so long as there’s a writer willing enough to scoop it up as it happens.
I don’t know if my fiction is any good, but I do know that I’m a lot better at it now than I was before I wrote this book.
Below is the book description for Life Between Moments. It will release on August 9, 2022 on Amazon, in print and ebook.
Thanks for reading and cheers.